Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-10

$50 s45 ....... Rapid City..-..i 90 WV
A,p,v. DEPART.
Go to Hitchcock's for your stationery.
The Sioux City Journal should now
be satisfied; having reached the acme OF
newspaper excellence in the Hawkeye
state.
For sash, doors, and wall paper call
at Fred Heidepriem's.
". G. Currier, formerly a resident OF
this city, and ex-sheriff Of Custer county,
is running the boarding house at the
Golden Summit mine.
Hitchcock's is headquarters for fruit
and confectionaries.
Rapid has dispensed with twenty-five
telephones up to Wednesday. 1t NOW
begins TO look like the Rapid telephone
would have to go.
In the march of empire you will find
that j. Cochran sells good goods, cheap
for cash.
The Iron Hill Mining company have
declared dividend No. 10, of 8 cents a
share, payable on the 25th inst. The
stock will probably touch the two dollar
mark before the end of the month.
Choice grapes by the basket at bottom
rates at Hitchcock's.
We are reliably informed that an offer
of $4,000 by a Chicago company, was
this week refused for the Tin Queen
mine, near st. Elmo. Blackmail would
seem to have lost its force, If it ever had
any in Chicago tin circles.
Ifyou want to counterfeit any condi-
ton of the thermometer, buy your goods
at Cochran's.
A stubborn malady which is designat-
ed as the "foot and mouth disease" is
said to be carrying off many cattle in
the northern Hills. The strange disease
first appeared zeal Minnesota, and from
there has since spread toward the
Hills.
Assaying done at Booth & Webster's
Gold, $1.O0; silver, $l.OO; gold and s,l-
yer, $l.5O; copper 81 so; tin 81 100; nickel
$2.09.
The management Of our county con-
temporary, The News, has again been
changed. G. Z. Hair, of Buffalo Gap, is
the present lessee, editor and manager
+. +. Street retiring. The paper shows
improvement under the new manage.
ment.
Builders will bear in mind that the
best place to buy paints and oils is at
Hitchcock's.
Percy Brennan, a youth of Is years,
who formerly lived in this place, died
near Hermosa, oh Sunday, the 4th inst,
from the effects Of being kicked by a
horse. He was a general favorite among
the people of Hermosa, where his death
is deeply regretted.
Say, Bob, how did yon like the show ?
Well, il did not strike me half as forci-
BILE as J. Cochran, selling goods way
down for cash.
T. V. Garlock has recently purchased
the east half Of lot 10, in block 1l5, on
the south side of Custer avenue, of G..
W. Smith, agent. Consideration, $3.50.
Mr.. Garlock contcmplates the erection
ola fine store building upon the prop
erty at an early day.
A full line Of patent medicines, and
toilet articles can be procured at eastern
prices at Hitchcock's.
The Sturgis Record says: "The Custer
CHRONICLE has entered on its eighth
year. If its support was as good as the
paper is, the p%roprietors would be rich
men now" The above mention, from a
journal of the acknowledged ability of
the Record. has a tendency to smooth
the ragged edge of adversely, and render
poverty palatable.
fyou want anything in the line of
hardware, fancy and staple groceries,
stoves, iron and glassware, mining sup
plies, farm implements, iron, steel, etc.,
ETC., 60 to Cochran's, the cheapest house
in the Black Hills.
In the Ceur d'Alene country they
have less sympathy for law breakers
than we are accustomed to here in
Deadwood. BY the Sun we learn that q
man known as Shorty, assaulted a man,